ambulancechaser

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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
> Through many talks with devoted and diverse people there — people who chose to invite me into their dorms and conversations rather than ostracize me — I began to realize the damage I had done. > That kind of persuasion happens in pe
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
And just so we are clear, DRM is independent of copyright and license. the lack of DRM does not mean the author/publisher relinquishes claims over distribution channels, but here they are saying "we trust you not to share it"
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
Dan Luu's style is so impressive for his ability to be super objective about pros and cons of things. There's a post he wrote where he traces his career and lists out possible missteps and successes. His ability to dispassionately
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
Dude, you literally had the founder of Docker asking you where the opinion came from that devs don't care about users. He or she just pointed out that often times non-employees talk on github issues and just remember Docker can only be
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
The problem with that is that it breaks existing scripts. If you have to update old scripts, why try to maintain the legacy stuff in the first place.
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
its a pedantic point but most proofs are handwavy in the sense that they don't show which rule of inference allows them to claim a particular intermediary result. Proving anything but the most trivial thing where every single deduction
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
Did she do a talk at strange loop about system calls? Her Google interview story was hysterical if it was her Edit not on mobile now. I was randomly looking through strange loop videos and watched one of her. Her enthusiasm and attitude are
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
You agree with the judge in all aspects save the not requiring a warrant in the first place-- which i think is the only strange there here at all. The judge ruled exactly as you think. The defendant argued that the warrant lacked jurisdicti
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
And the NIT program didn't give them anything about the person except for some identifying info. They went to the ISP located in florida to find out information on this and then got a traditional warrant to search the house which resul
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
But they argued that the IP address is freely given, so they didn't need a warrant for this. However, the IP address was freely given to the FBI when it transmitted the other information as what was to be collected by the warrant from
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
Yes they are. this whole thread is about mathematics being accessible to people outside academia. the greatgrandparent poster posted that they could follow mathematics despite having skipped university in a thread about mathematical maturit
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
I don't believe that this case set any new precedent.
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
I'm not sure that I see the connection between Linux at Oracle and the group of "Larry, Scott, IBM and HP" wanting Bill Gates to neuter SqlServer. Could you explain in more detail? This whole saga is fascinating, especially s
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
I don't think they quickly publish data to show data error, but just to refute claims that their product is deficient or dangerous. This might be what you mean but they aren't looking to disparage customers but just to maintain th
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
How could you implement macros in any sane way without s-exps? You need an AST and the hoops involved if you didn't have something like lisp would be terrible. Imagine running a macro over python or C code.
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
I'm all for descriptive names but do you really not like iterator variable names like i,j,k or x,y,z? You prepend them i (for integer i suppose)?
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
It is pretty funny that in a thread about liberals not being able to accurately summarize conservative ideas you would ascribe to maliciousness a different opinion. You are behaving in the way that the study pointed out but you seem to be d
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
The "problem" is that there are so many different use cases. There are people using emacs on strange systems for decades and their opinions vastly differ from a new user looking for a javascript environment. There are lots of opin
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
It is a drug as is caffeine and dextromethorphan. The former is marketed (to children!) and shown to be enjoyed by characters in popular television shows; the latter is sold in general stores, not necessarily just pharmacies. It is the ingr
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
I think its a general rule that anytime you derisively mock someone's name with these snide, "clever" puns--or whatever you want to call them--any argument you could make is ignored.
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
I uploaded all of my music to Google Play and deleted it off of my computer. When I get a new computer I only really need my google credentials and then between google drive and google play music I'm up to speed. I install a few packag
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
In the article, the cartoonist mentions "“When it comes to altering someone’s opinion or someone’s voice for the purpose of wealth, I have a problem with that,” said Friday. “It’s our constitutional right to free speech and our constit
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
Well, comparing cell phones to landlines and calling it worse seems to miss the addition of a key feature: mobility. It's kinda like comparing a home kitchen to one in an airplane and finding the airplane version woeful and without any
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
in mathematics, we lose concept of how many and fall back to cardinality, which has a lose correlation with how many. So asking "are there the same number" of integers as rational numbers gets a little iffy until we make some defi
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by ambulancechaser 10y ago
when you have 15 of those things start to make sense. I used vagrant in school just so that I wouldn't have any lasting tweaks of db's and weird things you end up doing. Also, with a provisioning script, I can get my projects runn
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by ambulancechaser 11y ago
the court decision cited only took up source code, and not compiled object code, precisely because source code is meant to be read by humans. Also, the right to normal "spoken" speech can be abrogated when it is a call to immediat
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by ambulancechaser 11y ago
"code in the context of instructing a computer to perform encryption is not speech." the decision cited from 1999 by the appellate court specifically considered this and found the opposite. As long as your phrase "Code in the
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by ambulancechaser 11y ago
asking to make sure that i somewhat understand. The point is that licenses can allow for literal readings or equity readings, ie. the spirit of the law. On its face, debian is fine as it makes it easy to set up zfs but is separately distrib
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by ambulancechaser 11y ago
i played with it last week but decided to play around with Rust instead since there was no debugger support and the official statement from the go team was that they have no intention of making integrations with gdb
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by ambulancechaser 11y ago
well, that's kinda been the way emacs has been for a while now. They recently added a really easy package managing system which allows for emacs to look and behave drastically different from each other. About making its way into the co

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